So I’m still working on the belated new year’s resolutions. I was sick one week in February so that set me off a week on the various schedules for the push-ups and sit-ups, and insert other excuses here for just being too busy to do the exercises a few times, so currently I’m starting week 4. Doing better on the sit-ups than the push-ups but I was anticipating that, I’ve always liked sit-ups/crunches more than push-ups anyway 😉
So a week ago today we had quite a snow storm (for southeast VA) down here, 
ended up with 3-4 inches of snow, and now in typical Virginia weather fashion it’s going to be sunny and 79 degrees today. Going to take this warm weather opportunity and try and get my courtyard back together. 
Had to take stuff apart when I had my AC unit replaced (when they installed it 2 years ago they only installed an AC unit, not heating and AC, so yes I didn’t really realize I didn’t have heat upstairs for 2 years but it hadn’t ever really gotten particularly cold until this year. Thankfully they replaced it with the correct model at no charge), so things were kind of a mess down there all winter and on New Year’s Eve there was a lot of wind and it knocked over the screen all-together and dumped a lot of dirt everywhere. Amazingly none of the pots completely broke, but I’m going to try and get a better soil mix this year so things don’t dry out so quickly and maybe I’ll be able to actually keep my plants alive this year. Also bought some bulbs over Thanksgiving out at the pottery, and I know I should’ve planted them when I got them, but they got stuck in the garage and I forgot about them. So even though they won’t bloom this year I’m gonna plant them anyway just to get them in the ground, I can enjoy them next year.
Pondering what flowers/plants I should go with for the courtyard this year. The spot only gets 2 hours-ish of midday sun for the pots on the screens and the planter box gets even less, maybe an hour. So what are some good, hearty (I know I will forget to water stuff) plants to pick? Unfortunately cactus need a lot of sun otherwise I’d opt for that 😉 Suggestions?
